yirminci
adjective C1- twentieth
Forms you’ll meet
Tap for its suffix chainAfter a vowel, the “my” ending drops its own vowel: -m, as in yirmincim.
The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “plural” ending is -ler.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yirmincisinde. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After “his/her” or “their”, the ending takes an n: yirmincisinde. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “in/at” ending is -nde.
After a vowel, s joins the ending: yirmincisiyle. The last vowel, i, is front and unrounded, so the “his/her” ending is -si. After a vowel, y joins the ending: yirmincisiyle. The last vowel, i, is a front vowel, so the “with/by” ending is -yle.
From the library
Sait Faik Abasıyanık, yirminci yüzyıl Türk öykücülüğünün en sevilen ve en özgün adlarından biri olarak kabul edilir.
Sait Faik Abasıyanık is regarded as one of the best-loved and most original names in twentieth-century Turkish short-story writing.
Ancak yirminci yüzyılın başlarında, bu eşsiz sözlü geleneğin sonsuza dek kaybolma tehlikesi açıkça ortaya çıktı.
However, in the early twentieth century, the danger of this unique oral tradition disappearing forever clearly emerged.
Yirminci yüzyılın başlarında edebiyat dünyasına adım attığında, dönemin şairleri genellikle katı kurallara bağlı geleneksel ölçüleri kullanıyordu.
When he stepped into the literary world in the early twentieth century, the poets of the era were generally using traditional meters bound to strict rules.
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